Friday, October 4, 2024

October Spotlight Read

 

I've been a fan of Lish McBride for nearly a decade. Her books are fun and make me giggle. The Necromancer is my favorite series she's created, but I'm also excited when she has another book out. And wouldn't you know it, she's got a new one coming out in October!



Faolan Kelly’s grandfather is dead. She’s alone in the world and suddenly homeless, all because the local powers that be don’t think a young man of sixteen is mature enough to take over his grandfather’s homestead…and that’s with them thinking Faolan is a young man. If she revealed that her grandfather had been disguising her for years, they would marry her off at the first opportunity.

The mayor finds a solution that serves everyone but Faolan. He hires a gunslinger to ship her off to the Settlement, a remote fort where social outcasts live under the leadership of His Benevolence Gideon Dillard. It's a place rife with mystery, kept afloat by suspicious wealth. Dillard's absolute command over his staff just doesn't seem right. And neither do the strange noises that keep Faolan up at night.

When Faolan finds the body of a Settlement boarder, mangled by something that can’t possibly be human, it’s clear something vicious is stalking the palisades. And as Settlement boarders continue to drop like flies, Faolan knows she must escape to evade the creature’s wrath.




HAPPY READING!!

Thursday, October 3, 2024

September Wrap Up

  What a weird month. I seemed to stuff it full of things both personal and work-related. At least one more busy week ahead of me at the start of the month. Then, maybe, things chill out, at least personally. I never what's going on with work, that'll be what it'll be. But as the weather's colder and wetter I go out less often. I don't like the cold. What I do like, is curling up in a blanket and or in front of the fire. So personally, much more reading time in the works. Plus I just stuffed my Kindle, so I have things to read on the bus, the wait for the bus, and on my breaks!







Books Read: 6
BINGO Books: 1
A to Z Challenge: 3
Pages Read: 1548
Currently Reading: Cult Following






I've said it once (at least), and I'll say it again, I think this is the hardest BINGO card to date. I'm doing so much reading, but the last few squares are nowhere to be seen. Not to mention the cursed 342 square. That might be my last square standing this year. I did manage one square this month, good-bye Grim Reaper square! I also managed three squares on my A to Z challenge! So, there was that!

HAPPY READING!!

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Waiting on Wednesday


Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they are books that have yet to be released but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine.



The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction.

Consider the seahorse: couples mate for life and meet each morning for a dance, pirouetting and changing colors before going their separate ways, to dance again the next day. The American wood frog survives winter by allowing itself to freeze solid, its heartbeat slowing until it stops altogether. Come spring, the heart kick-starts itself spontaneously back to life. As for the lemur, it lives in matriarchal troops led by an alpha female (it’s not unusual for female ring-tailed lemurs to slap males across the face when they become aggressive). Whenever they are cold or frightened, they group together in what’s known as a lemur ball, paws and tails intertwined, to form a furry mass as big as a bicycle wheel.

But each of these extraordinary animals is endangered or holds a sub-species that is endangered. This urgent, inspiring book of essays dedicated to 23 unusual and underappreciated creatures is a clarion call insisting that we look at the world around us with new eyes—to see the magic of the animals we live among, their unknown histories and capabilities, and above all how lucky we are to tread the same ground as such vanishing treasures.





Why I'm Waiting:
This sounds both adorable and a lot of fun!



HAPPY READING!!

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

New Release Tuesday


In this spellbinding and entertaining memoir, Regina and Ryan Cohn, founders of Oddities Flea Market, take us on a fascinating and specially curated tour of their most macabre and mysterious objects, art, and artifacts, sharing their incredible history and stories.

Enter at your own risk …




HAPPY READING!!